Career

Nabbing a job you love is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, working in the fashion industry is likely the fulfilment of a lifelong goal; the days of dressing up in your mum’s heels as a toddler and lunchtimes in the Textiles rooms at school have all led to this. And that’s exactly what makes career burnout all the more possible and devastating.

The global market for fashion has seen economical, environmental impacts which is shifting consumer behaviour, the challenge has become to understand the ever-changing needs of customers. In this changing environment what can fashion students consider and do to enter into a workforce and make their mark.

I knew I wanted to work in fashion around the same time LC knew she probably should’ve worn a jacket on her first day at Teen Vogue. Through devouring every magazine, memoir and movie I could get my hands on, I unwittingly formed a set of preconceived ideas about what it meant to work in the industry. But with five years of fashion industry experience under my belt, I can safely say that the movies are nothing like the books - which are also nothing like real life. Ahead, the fashion industry myths I once believed, that are now well and truly busted...